Occupation / job
First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers pays $49,100, effectively level with the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $920 apart, which is inside the noise of a single year’s survey. Treat this as an average-paying occupation and decide it on everything else.
178,760 people are employed as First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.
Supervising cleaning and grounds crews suits people who can schedule labour across sites and be judged on a standard the client sees every single day.
No verified preparation time is on file for First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
From $40,100 to $62,600 is $1,875 a month, or 1.6x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.
Even the bottom quarter, under $40,100, lands within $9,920 of the $50,020 typical American wage. The downside of First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers is not really the money.
Avoid it if you cannot manage a crew across sites you cannot see, which is the whole supervisory problem here.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 178,760 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
At 1.6x between $40,100 and $62,600 this is a normally shaped occupation. $49,100 is what the middle of First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.
Put in money rather than ratios: $40,100 at the 25th percentile, $49,100 at the midpoint, $62,600 at the 75th. $22,500 separates the quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Between $40,100 and $62,600 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $49,100. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $13,500; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $22,500.
The climb from $49,100 to $62,600 is $13,500, against $9,000 down to $40,100. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers is larger than the realistic downside.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $19.27 at the bottom quarter, $23.60 at the midpoint, $30.09 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $49,100 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers, the hourly figure is $49,100 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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